Don’t Miss Out

You’re all set!

Look out for our weekly updates soon.

Connect with us

Each week we send a customized newsletter to our parent and teen subscribers. Parents can customize their settings to receive recommendations and parent tips based on their kids’ ages. Teens receive a version just for them with the latest reviews and top picks for movies, video games, apps, music, books, and more.

Sign up now for the latest news, top picks for your kids, and helpful tips.

Interesting Book!

This book for girls who want a story about a woman who tries to bring females up in society. It is much more appropriate that Clique. Theres only mild kissing and the girls are acting like a girl at that age would, obsession over boys. Overall, it was an interesting book.

Excellent Read!

I really love the Alpha's series. I think they are the perfect books for girls 10 and up because girls that age really need at least one good role model to look up to. All of the girls (Skye, Charlie, Allie...) have good, ambitious attitudes. Also, it is refreshing to see books about people who are beautiful on the inside, smart, and sweet instead of pathetic lowlifes who drink and tan all day. The one thing I would say though is sometimes the girls can be a little mean to one another, (but the girls that are mean are not the ones i would cout as the good role models and cut them a break, they ARE teenage girls!) And sometimes they are so ambitious, they will do WHATEVER it takes to get to the top. I personally don't have a problem with that, but some parents might think of that as selfishness. But I would definetly recommend this book series to any girls I know because it is a great story about our society's best adolecents.

Excellent!

I expected this series to be just like The Clique, only with more competitive drama. I was wrong. Unlike The Clique, the true message here is to find your own style and be yourself; then you will really be the best. In The Clique, girls are ridiculed for liking anything other than looking pretty. At Alpha Academy, girls do try to look good (which girl doesn't?) and they do try to impress the boys (again, which girl doesn't?) But unlike the Clique, these girls aren't on top because they fit in or look right. They are on top because of their talents, their intelligence, what makes them who they are. They are on top because of their inner beauty, not their outer beauty.
The girls can be mean at times in their 'survival of the fittest' world. They can be judgmental, but even in this world they make friends and there is a lot of character growth.
Alphas is inspiring. The three main characters, rather than trying to fit in with this shark-tank world they live in, embrace the chance to stand out from the others. It has a deep, positive message, hidden underneath regular teenage personality.

Favorite Book Ever!

I FREAKING LOVE THIS BOOK!! Sorry.. but i'm obsessed. It has everything I personally look for in my perfect book. Drama, Technology, and A GREAT PLOT! Name another book that is about that...
Three of 100 girls are highlighted in this book. They all made it to the extrodinary Alpha Academy on Alpha Island. Owned by multi-billionaire Shira Brazille, handpicked 100 talented young women. Specificly targeting girls with talents of art, dancing, singing, inventing... The best of the best. Now, one of the girls who got picked was Skye Hamilton. Teacher's pet dancer, Skye is one of the highlighted in this book. The second one, Allie A. Abbott. One initial away from stardom, when Allie J. Abbott's invitation to Alpha Academy comes to her door, Before thinking twice, with the makeup and money, she's created idenity theft in a flash. Last but not least, Charlie Deary ( i think thats her last name ) Mom is former assistant of Shira Brazille, got her into thrle academy, but with a price, her BF. Shira's son. Reluntanly giving him up, thinking of the other 99 girls waiting to sink their claws into him...
Truly Magnificent on it's Own. =)
~ Schuyler

perfect for anyone

I really like this book because lisi harrison is a great author and people are reading her completley wrong... With the clique shes trying to show people how ridiculous how spoiled teenagers can be... and i like how in alphas she gives the charactors uniforms to get rid of all of the constant label dropping [like in the clique] and i think the alphas series is to show what people will do to succeed. I personally like this series better than the clique and i think lisi does a good job of showing how teenagers nowadays are. I really like how Skye is determined to get her way and be the number one alpha. :)

How to End Up on Top

Alphas is about girls in a futuristic type of environment that just so happen to be rich and mildly famous. They compete, fight, and often makes one or the other feel left out -- they're all frienemies. The girls are striving to end up on top and there's nothing wrong with that. Harrison delivers the message to kids that basically tells them to be strong and don't let anyone get in your way. It's the way life works; people fight and often do not get good result, but there is one once in a while. Also, to end up on top, you must work to the best of your abilities.

I actually enjoyed it, but I thought that tweens 11-13 may get the wrong idea because the girls are really catty and bitchy-even the main ''good girl character" is catty, and think its okay to act like that.

booooring boy trauma ... as usual!!!

kinda boring ... ALL about boys, unlike the clique series. the clique is sooo much better, soo much wittier, and a much better story in general. not very good in general. lisi harrison can do MUCH better.

Good book!

Pretty good...

I quite like the book. I want them to make a movie. I think it would be okay for 9+ because there is nothing bad about it. Lisi Harrison is one of the best authors of all time. She is one of the most popular authors in my school. Even the boys read her books... (some of them anyway). Soo yea, I like it. Not the best book i have read in my life, but it's good.

Girls are Shallower Then A Kiddy Pool

Like the Clique books, the girls are quite shallow. They go around with their Guchi purses making fun of other girls. Not good. And they do use somewhat controversial language, something that no kid's book should have. And there is VERY noticeable product placement. All the brands you can think of are placed into ONE BOOK. Again, the girls are shallow and teach other young girls that if you be mean and nasty towards the general population, then it gets you some where, which it doesn't. Parents beware, unless you would like your children to be shallow and self concious.

Our Policies

Download our free app

Common Sense is the nation’s leading independent non-profit organization dedicated to empowering kids to thrive in a world of media and technology. Families, educators, and policymakers turn to
Common Sense for unbiased information and trusted advice to help them learn how to harness the positive power of media and technology for all kids.

The Common Sense and Common Sense Media names, associated trademarks, and logos, including the Decider Slider and Age Ratings Bugs,
are trademarks of Common Sense Media, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization (FEIN 41-2024986).